Book Section #18148

(2020) Other trace elements (heavy metals) and chemicals in aquatic environments. In: Micropollutants and Challenges: Emerging in the Aquatic Environments and Treatment Processes. Elsevier, pp. 215-247. ISBN 9780128186121 (ISBN)

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Abstract

Industrial, sewage, and agricultural wastes are discharged daily into the aquatic ecosystem. Heavy metal ions such as mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, chromium, and selenium are naturally or anthropogenic are released into the environment through human activities. Heavy metals causing many problems and they are a major threat to human health. Trace elements are any element having an average concentration of less than about 100 parts per million atoms (ppma) or less than 100 µg/g. This group of pollutants is widely found in water, wastewater, seafood, personal care products, and human samples. Exposure to heavy metals can cause toxicity to a variety of tissues, organs, and systems such as circulatory, respiratory, endocrine, immune, nervous, urinary, and reproductive systems. The main mechanism of heavy metals toxicity are the generation of free radicals to cause oxidative stress, damage of biological molecules such as enzymes, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, damage of DNA which is key to carcinogenesis as well as neurotoxicity. Some of the heavy metals toxicity could be acute while others could be chronic after long term exposure so there are various stages and technologies for water purification. Primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment processes are the stages of urban and industrial water treatment. © 2020 Elsevier Inc.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Aquatic environments Heavy metals Trace elements
Title of Book: Micropollutants and Challenges: Emerging in the Aquatic Environments and Treatment Processes
Page Range: pp. 215-247
Publisher: Elsevier
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818612-1.00006-4
ISBN: 9780128186121 (ISBN)
Depositing User: Zahra Otroj
URI: http://eprints.mui.ac.ir/id/eprint/18148

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